Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.

Quote by Edvard Munch

Topics: Fear Quotes, Illness Quotes

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which...

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which...

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was...

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was...

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is...

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is...

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with...

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with...

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I...

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I...

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but...

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but...

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly...

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly...

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening...

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening...

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for...

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for...

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of...

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of...

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven...

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven...

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is...

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is...

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick,...

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick,...

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have...

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have...

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see...

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see...

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed...

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed...

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments....

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments....

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.